URS Awarded Engineering Design Contract By Washington State Department of Transportation; Contract Has Maximum Value of $19 Million to URS
Posted on: Tuesday, 6 June 2006, 18:00 CDT
URS Corporation (NYSE: URS) today announced that the Company has been awarded a contract by the Washington State Department of Transportation to provide engineering design and environmental permitting services for widening the five-mile section of I-90 just east of Snoqualmie Pass in Washington State. The $387 million project will provide a safer, more efficient six-lane freeway, reduce avalanche danger, and decrease traffic congestion. Under the terms of the contract, URS will assist WSDOT with engineering design services, including the realignment of the roadway, and develop avalanche mitigation measures. In addition, environmental mitigation measures will be developed that will allow wildlife to cross the freeway. URS will assist in the preparation of the final environmental impact statement for the project and support obtaining required permits. The four-year contract has a maximum value of $19 million to URS.
Gary V. Jandegian, President, URS Division, said: "We look forward to working with the Washington State Department of Transportation on this project to improve safety and reduce traffic congestion on the Snoqualmie Pass East section of Interstate 90. Interstate 90 is a major transportation corridor, linking Puget Sound to eastern Washington, and improving this roadway is important to meeting the current and future needs of citizens of Washington State. URS has extensive experience assisting state transportation agencies around the country successfully complete complex, critical assignments, and we are proud to have been chosen for this project."
URS Corporation offers a comprehensive range of professional planning and design, systems engineering and technical assistance, program and construction management, and operations and maintenance services for transportation, commercial/ industrial, facilities, environmental, water/wastewater, homeland security, installations and logistics, and defense systems. Headquartered in San Francisco, the Company operates in more than 20 countries with approximately 29,400 employees providing engineering and technical services to federal, state and local governmental agencies as well as private clients in the chemical, pharmaceutical, oil and gas, power, manufacturing, mining and forest products industries (www.urscorp.com).
Source: Business Wire
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